Purpose

To provide specially designed instruction, accommodations, modifications, and technology supports such as assisted listening devices to access the standard curriculum for students with significant hearing impairments including deafness.

Description
Students receive services by a teacher of students with hearing impairments through a model of delivery that includes pull-out instruction, collaboration, consult, co-teaching, or in-class support based on content and student needs.

Students may also receive services in the Regional Day School Program for the Deaf (RDSPD) classes for most of the instructional day. Opportunities to be included with typically developing peers are determined by the ARD/IEP committee. Focus is on oral, gestural or simultaneous communication (signs and speech simultaneously) and literacy.

Curriculum/Assessment
Standard district curriculum
Standard state assessment-STAAR
Standard state assessment with accommodations-STAAR
State accommodated assessment-STAAR A

Staffing
1 teacher/1 teaching assistant
Elementary: 3-8 students
Secondary: 5-10 students

Entrance Criteria
Must be identified by the ARD/IEP committee as a student with an auditory impairment and in need of specially designed instruction by a certified teacher of students with hearing impairments.

Exit Criteria
Must be able to perform in a standard curriculum with supplementary aids and services and no longer demonstrate the need for specially designed instruction by a certified teacher of students with hearing impairments.


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